Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City / Edition 1

by Susan Welch, Lee Sigelman, Timothy Bledsoe, Michael Combs

Overview

This book focuses on the impact of residential changes on the attitudes and behavior of African-Americans and whites. Will whites' attitudes about blacks and blacks' attitudes toward whites change if they are living in integrated neighborhoods rather than apart from one another? Are black suburbanites more likely to share the views of their fellow white suburbanites or of their fellow African-Americans in the central city? Will residential integration and new patterns of race in the suburbs break down divisions between blacks and whites in their views of local public services? These are the central questions of this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521796552
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/24/2001
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: race and residence; 2. Race relations in Detroit, 1968–92; 3. Black-white social interaction; 4. Perceptions of racial discriminations; 5. Black racial solidarity; 6. White racial prejudice; 7. Opinions on urban issues - the schools and the police; 8. Conclusions.

Editorial Reviews

"The study of race and residence has not, to date, accounted for the myriad ways that neighborhood context affects racial attitudes. This well-written book is an impressive work that will help fill the void. Its detailed analysis is sure to be of enormous interest to every serious student of racial and urban politics.... the authors have made a valuable contribution by demonstrating that neighborhood racial integration has positive effects in one of the more segregated metropolitan cities in America. Their study will provide a solid foundation for further analysis..." Perspectives on Politics

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